Australian Road Rider — August 2017

you can happily put the wind up a few far

sportier bikes without too much trouble in the

tighter stuff.

Seriously, this bike is just so satisfying to

ride fast simply because you come away from

it feeling like you’ve wrung the neck of the

thing and extracted everything it’s got to give

— all without scaring yourself silly or going

fast enough to get into the kind of trouble that

requires fi les hidden in cakes. If smiles-per-

dollar was a category on spec sheets, this bike

would be winning games of Top Trumps in

playgrounds everywhere.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Tracer

manages to achieve its excellent handling

r Twin 282mm petal discs with four-piston caliper and

ABS equipped. Yeah, it stops.

r Height-adjustable windscreen keeps the worst of the weather at bay.

r Optional chunky rubber for the more hardcore

among us.

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